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Protecting Your Intellectual Property
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What You’re Here To Learn
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How to use IP in your business
What you need to know about patents
Introduction to intellectual property
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Why Protect Your Ideas?
UK Courts: £4 million
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European Patent 0042723
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• Umbrella term
• Covers: • Trade Marks • Copyright • Designs • Know How • Patents, etc.
• Intellectual property • Stimulate innovation • Protect investment
IP
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What is “Intellectual Property”?
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• Protect brands (distinctive words or logos)
• Prove the origin of goods & services
• Registration strongly advised ®
• Duration: indefinite (if used)
Trade Marks
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• Protects original works (books, music, software code, user manuals, etc.)
• Infringement requires copying
• Automatic protection (no registration)
• Duration: life + 70 years
Copyright
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• Protects visual appearance
• Registered & unregistered
• Based on drawings / photos
• Copying not required
• Duration: up to 25 years
Design Protection
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Trade Secrets
• Confidential information (judged by its nature,
circumstances, unauthorized use)
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Duration: potentially indefinite
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• Protect inventions (solutions to technical problems)
• Copying not required
• A right to stop, not a right to do
• Protect inventive concept • not just a particular example
• Automatically published
• Duration: up to 20 years
Patents
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Patents In More Detail
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• Novelty • Invention never before disclosed, anywhere in the world • Includes your own disclosures (!) • No grace period in the US and Canada anymore • Don’t rely on NDAs or secrecy
What You Need To Get A Patent
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• Patentable subject matter • US: Technical & Method • Europe: Technical (more Methods are not being filed)
• Inventive Step • Solves a problem • Can seem a low threshold • Think: “that’s neat”; not “wow, that’s amazing!”
What You Need To Get A Patent
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• Protect a competitive advantage
• Deter competitors
• Revenue stream (licensing)
• Defensive position (e.g. cross-licensing)
• Enhance your company’s value
Why Patent?
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Inventor : Makes the invention
Patent Attorney: Writes patent
application and submits to
Patent Office
Patent Examiners:
Examine the patent
application and grant or refuse
Owner: Retain rights, license or
sell to others
Courts: Enforce the patent
against infringers
Patent Process
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• Main markets
• Manufacturing bases
• Licensees and competitors
• Preferred enforcement jurisdictions
Where To File
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0 12 18 30 …//… 36-48+ (Months)
Publication
and Search
Search and
Examination
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
Patent Timeline & Costs
• Investment in first patent application is worthwhile • Largely determines future strength • Typical cost range: 25,000 – 60,000 NOK
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Rules To Follow for IP
•Do not disclose before filing
Rule 1
•Let the Experts decide what is patentable
Rule 2
•Invest properly in writing applications
Rule 3
•Do not rely on a single patent
Rule 4
•Do not file in too many countries
Rule 5
•Keep control of your IP
Rule 6
•Do not discuss the patents of others in writing
Rule 7
•Do not discuss your IP over Gmail
Rule 8
•Your employees should sign agreements stating that IP they build for your company is owned by the company
Rule 9
•Never perform your own patent search
Rule 10
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Value in Intellectual Property
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Questions?